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by is0tope 5y ago
Correct perhaps I should have been clearer as monetary values that are auditable, and need to add up.
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by is0tope 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. As mentioned I am not an accountant, but the specific stock method did come up also. I decided to skip it in the interest of brevity (article was already getting way too big). However this is an interesting ins
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by is0tope 5y ago
That is where your personal judgement comes in of course, but it would be hard for them to "run away with the stocks". These are not physical certificates, but just registrations in a central organisation. Brokers (in traditional
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by is0tope 5y ago
Floating point is good enough when you need to display something, and also for certain scientific calculations where high precision is necessary. You only start to see errors after a while, and it is likely good enough for the calculations
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by is0tope 5y ago
Good question. I am actually not super familiar with it, but in general your shares are owned under the name of the broker (called "street name"). That broker will then deal with portioning out dividends etc. I believe you can req
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by is0tope 5y ago
No problem, when I first came across it I also didn't quite understand why it existed.
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by is0tope 5y ago
Thank you, i will put "how market making works" on my list. Obviously that is a very detailed subject, but I think the basics can be covered pretty easily.
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by is0tope 5y ago
You are absolutely correct, and in general no-one should use floating point for any monetary values. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible without going into the nuances of float vs decimal. I might rephrase it to just "precisi
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by is0tope 5y ago
Thanks a lot, I am glad it is useful. If you have any ideas for topics that were hard to understand before, please do let me know!
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by is0tope 5y ago
So all of these methods converge when the position is fully closed out. They are actually designed mostly for regular businesses that are buying and selling items, but it works for anything. You always end up making the same amount of money
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by is0tope 5y ago
Much appreciated! I am still learning.
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Positions, Profit and Loss(machow.ski)
76 points by is0tope 5y ago|53 comments
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by is0tope 5y ago
No problem. I can't seem to edit it now, but in the last example it's the buy order that gets the better price, not the sell order.
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by is0tope 5y ago
I hope I understand your question, but it should not be possible for them to "meet" or to trade. If two such orders were submitted, and there were no other orders in the book, then these orders would be both passive. IE. They woul
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by is0tope 5y ago
For someone buying ETF's monthly or something similar this is mostly correct. Your 100 share order is unlikely to move the market, and the time you spent trying to passively set up the order, and then babysit it is unlikely to be worth
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by is0tope 5y ago
This post is correct. Also in addition, there is a factor I did not really cover which is the round trip time between you and the exchange. During that time the best bid/ask can move away from you, and even though you sent a marketable
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by is0tope 5y ago
It really depends on the stock and the liquidity available. I'm certain if you fire a large sized market order into some penny stock you will slip for sure. For the big liquid stocks I agree, it is not as important, especially for smal
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by is0tope 5y ago
I wish I was that good at design :). The tool I used to make the page is a static site generator called Hugo. The theme I used is called Cactus ( https://github.com/monkeyWzr/hugo-theme-cactus ). I made some minor modifi
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An Introduction to Limit Order Books(machow.ski)
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by is0tope 5y ago
I am primarily a backend developer, so this is a small foray into the javascript/front end world. This is a small side project I put together to learn Vue / D3.js. The concept is to let users create animated message passing diagra
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Show HN: MsgViz, an animated message passing diagram editor(msgviz.com)
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by is0tope 6y ago
https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack#Enterprise_Edition My favourite bit on this site re. The long version of the LACK table or "enterprise edition": "Following ICT tradition, the Enterprise Edition i
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by is0tope 6y ago
Do you have any reccomended reading for others investigating this option?
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by is0tope 7y ago
I wrote my Clash Royale streamer tracker ( http://playedwith.io ) using this exact combination. Backend: - Django Rest Framework - Django Background Tasks (great for running cron like jobs, and simpler than celery) Frontend: -
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by is0tope 7y ago
One of my favourite series of books. In many ways quite dark, but with a thread of ironic optimism rarely found in other sci fi books.
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by is0tope 7y ago
I'm guessing that they are implying that the HFTs already know that these trades came from robinhood (because of order flow feed) , and therefore would discount them heavily on having inside knowledge.
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by is0tope 7y ago
Interesting that this is an actual phenomenon. I recall my French friend explaining to me that "McDonald's" was shortened to "MacDo" which then (if you were in the know) was reversed to "DoMac".
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by is0tope 7y ago
> kids whose parents delay kindergarten a year to make them better at sports Unrelated, but could you explain this?
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by is0tope 7y ago
The new workhouses of the digital age.
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by is0tope 7y ago
I've caught myself doing this as well and also questioned why this was happening. My initial guess is that it is just manifestation of phone addiction, but perhaps it is also selective boredom. For instance the majority of the time whe

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